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Implementing A Community-Based Social Marketing Project To Improve Agricultural Worker Health, Joan D. Flocks, Leslie Clarke, Stan Albrecht, Carol Bryant, Paul Monaghan, Holly Baker
Implementing A Community-Based Social Marketing Project To Improve Agricultural Worker Health, Joan D. Flocks, Leslie Clarke, Stan Albrecht, Carol Bryant, Paul Monaghan, Holly Baker
Joan D. Flocks
The Together for Agricultural Safety project is a community-based social marketing project working to reduce the adverse health effects of pesticide exposure among fernery and nursery workers in Florida. In 3 years, the collaboration between university and community researchers has embodied many of the principles of community-based research while completing multiple stages of formative data collection required for a social marketing project. This hybrid approach to developing a health intervention for a minority community has been successful in its early stages because the community partners are organized, empowered, and motivated to execute research activities with the assistance of academic partners. …
Pesticide Policy And Farmworker Health, Joan D. Flocks
Pesticide Policy And Farmworker Health, Joan D. Flocks
Joan D. Flocks
Although data on the carcinogenicity of agricultural pesticides are still being generated and are thus incomplete, research such as the Agricultural Health Study indicates that populations with increased, regular exposure to pesticides have high rates of a variety of cancers (National Institutes of Health & Environmental Protection Agency 2008). Policies that regulate toxins such as pesticides are envisioned by the public to be empirical and objective, but toxins are socially produced and their regulation is just as often based on political and economic factors as it is on science (Luke 2000). This does not bode well for farm- workers who …
Latex Allergy: Implications For The Nurse Anesthetist, Victoria Steelman
Latex Allergy: Implications For The Nurse Anesthetist, Victoria Steelman
Victoria J. Steelman
No abstract provided.
The Risks Of Blood Exposures, Victoria Steelman
The Risks Of Blood Exposures, Victoria Steelman
Victoria J. Steelman
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Prevalence And Risk Factors Of Adverse Reactions To Natural Rubber Latex Among Nursing Personnel, Victoria Steelman
Prevalence And Risk Factors Of Adverse Reactions To Natural Rubber Latex Among Nursing Personnel, Victoria Steelman
Victoria J. Steelman
Allergic reactions to products containing natural rubber latex (NRL), ranging in severity from contact dermatitis, rhinoconjunctivitis to asthma and anaphylaxis, are becoming increasingly common among healthcare workers. These reactions may be life threatening. Yet, little is known about the prevalence or risk factors for development of sensitization in nursing staff. Specific aims of this study were to: (1) determine prevalence of symptoms resulting from exposure to NRL and (2) identify risk factors (allergic predisposition, air latex content, glove use, frequency of NRL exposure in workplace, non-workplace exposures) for severity of symptoms to NRL contact among nursing staff. Hypotheses were, nursing …